me a witch, who does tarot, has prophetic dreams, etc when something that i think will happen does in fact happen: oh my god

Is this a common occurrence btw. tit havers who also frequently run upstairs

ERASE the idea that America saved lives by dropping two atomic bombs on Japan from your minds. ERASE the idea that it was anything more than a political move to scare Russia and also to satiate US curiosity as to the true ability of nuclear weapons. Nagasaki and Hiroshima were not military bases. They were heavily populated civilian cities chosen precisely bc the U.S. wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go. Japan was on the verge of surrendering, the U.S. literally wanted to test out their nuclear weapons on people that they deemed disposable. That is it. If those bombs were dropped by any nation other than the US veryone involved would have been tried as war criminals.

Also erase the idea that America was the hero of WWII and got into the war because they wanted so save people. They couldn’t have cared less about the victims of the Holocaust, proven by the fact that they turned away so many shiploads of refugees that went on to die at the hands of Nazis.

“the us wanted to see how many people an atomic bomb could kill in one go” oh really? Source your bullshit, asshole

i left out sources bc i figured most tumblr users know how to use google but ok 

- Report produced by the U.S Strategic Bombing Group (employed by Truman) to survey the air attacks on Japan concluded that: 

“Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even if Russia had not entered the war, and even if no invasion had been planned or contemplated.” - page 52-56 

- Dwight Eisenhower future president and then Supreme Commander of the Allied Forces also said:

“I had been conscious of a feeling of depression and so I voiced to [the then Secretary of War] my grave misgivings, first on the basis of my belief that Japan was already defeated and that dropping the bomb was completely unnecessary, and secondly because I thought that our country should avoid shocking world opinion by the use of a weapon whose employment was, I thought, no longer mandatory as a measure to save American lives.” - page 380

- Admiral William Leahy, one of the highest ranking officials in the US army during WW2 wrote of the usage of the bombs:

“It is my opinion that the use of this barbarous weapon at Hiroshima and Nagasaki was of no material assistance in our war against Japan. […] My own feeling was that in being the first to use it, we had adopted an ethical standard common to the barbarians of the Dark Ages. I was not taught to make war in that fashion, and wars cannot be won by destroying women and children.” - page 441

- General Douglas McArthur, another high ranking US official in the war:

“[When asked about his opinion on bombing Japan] He replied that he saw no military justification for the dropping of the bomb. The war might have ended weeks earlier, he said, if the United States had agreed, as it later did anyway, to the retention of the institution of the emperor.” - page 70-71

- On September 9, 1945 Admiral William F. Halsey commander of the Third Fleet publicly quoted as saying:

“The first atomic bomb was an unnecessary experiment… . It was a mistake to ever drop it… . [the scientists] had this toy and they wanted to try it out, so they dropped it… . It killed a lot of Japs.” - online source

- The US secretary of war, Henry Stimson, speaking to President Truman:

“I was a little fearful that before we could get ready the Air Force might have Japan so thoroughly bombed out that the new weapon [the atomic bomb] would not have a fair background to show its strength.” - diary of Henry Stimson which can be found online here 

- Even those deploying the bombs questioned the decision to drop them on civilian cities:

“I thought that if we were going to drop the atomic bomb, drop it on the outskirts–say in Tokyo Bay–so that the effects would not be as devastating to the city and the people. I made this suggestion over the phone between the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings and I was told to go ahead with our targets.” - online source

- Lewis Strauss Assistant to the Navy Secretary James Forrestal on the locations of the bombings:

“I remember suggesting […] a large forest of cryptomeria trees not far from Tokyo. The cryptomeria tree is the Japanese version of our redwood… I anticipated that a bomb detonated at a suitable height above such a forest… would lay the trees out in windrows from the center of the explosion in all directions as though they were matchsticks, and, of course, set them afire in the center. […] Secretary Forrestal agreed wholeheartedly with the recommendation.” - page 145

So to recap: 

Draw your own conclusions. 

is there anyone out there with a nyt cooking subscription

will they send me the chamomile tea cake with strawberry icing recipe

We out here torrenting recipes now? Reblog

she gets it

#tumblrinas have always been here etc

I was making coffee and I heard a "mpeep" behind me so I turn around an on my kitchen floor sits Kotelet, the tiny stray that visits me every day, and to her side sits a big fat house spider, you know the one that gets stuck in your bath.

So I go "Hey ehh, you brought a buddy?" and she looks down at the spider and swallows it in one go -legs and everything- and looks back at me with these cute big eyes

Couldn't get the image out of my head

CRIME SCENE

You dont understand, I love this man so much

Save me Save me

almorra!!

Idk how, but gw2 managed to create the most attractive female body type to me in the charr. 8 feet tall, four horns, four ears, terrifying, gorgeous, furry, flat-chested. I just want to curl up with my giant cat wife tbh.

Apart from that though, I still genuinely think the charr are the best designed fantasy race ever. They're just kinda mesmerizing to look at.

"One of the ideas that helped sell the charr as a race was they wouldn’t just be dudes with cat heads. When talking about cat people as a concept, that is the mental image that met with the most resistance. I began talking about the charr in terms of being not dudes with cat heads but as chimera-like monsters that joined several animals together, with heavy feline features. I remember a key meeting when I drew a quick sketch of a bipedal cat beast to get the point across, we then began concepting to flesh out the race and really sell the idea – and a charr was born." "It really didn’t make any sense to have boobs on a charr female, particularly with all the effort we took to make her sleek and fierce. We thought they should have no breasts at all or at least hide them under some fluffy fur. Above all else, we needed to be true to the race, of course! There was still some debate, however, so I gave them a choice: either be subtle and downplay the breasts (it wasn’t a point of the race, anyway) or go full-on realistic. Yes, that’s right —none or six!! But really, the armor augmentation required for six boobs would be just as ridiculous, so none it was!" (source) Thanks based anet devs Katy Hargrove and Kristen Perry, for making charr not just dudes with cat heads and for making the feminine character model not a catgirl respectively. Bonus thanks for the entire studio for going "we would have to model armor around 6 boobs? ok let's just not do that then".

Music in Film: O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) dir. Joel Coen, Ethan Coen

In Miles Universe

Its Decembruary

Sorry to disappoint but

This however means that Miles just deadass wrote “Decembruary” on his test.

He was fucking dedicated to that F

Spider-Man Heritage Post

Hey. Why isn’t the moon landing a national holiday in the US. Isn’t that fucked up? Does anyone else think that’s absurd?

It was a huge milestone of scientific and technological advancement. (Plus, at the time, politically significant). Humanity went to space! We set foot on a celestial body that was not earth for the first time in human history! That’s a big deal! I’ve never thought about it before but now that I have, it’s ridiculous to me that that’s not part of our everyday lives and the public consciousness anymore. Why don’t we have a public holiday and a family barbecue about it. Why have I never seen the original broadcast of the moon landing? It should be all over the news every year!

It’s July 20th. That’s the day of the moon landing. Next year is going to be the 54th anniversary. I’m ordering astronaut shaped cookie cutters on Etsy and I’m going to have a goddamn potluck. You’re all invited.

Hey. Hey. Tumblr. Ides of March ppl. We can do this

This is a scheduled post for two days before the anniversary of the moon landing. Please get your moon themed items and foods sorted now in anticipation.

Requires 8 hours research time. Endurance must be greater than 5 (manly man things) and pass a Perception check (to notice the hidden magazine)

THOUGHT GAINED: A/B/O

PROBLEM The zine you found underneath the Student Communist’s couch reads in screen-printed text MAZOV/NILSEN- A/B/O. A fictional world, populated only by men. The idea of a world without women intrigues you. Their status in the world is denoted by Meteian letters- Alpha, Beta, Omega. Alphas sound strong. Top dogs. You’d probably be an Alpha. You can practically smell the testosterone coming off the pages- you know whatever is in this booklet isn’t for pussies. This is about men, by men, for men. What masculine secrets will this story hold?

SOLUTION Rutting, scent marking, breeding, heat cycles, slick– the terms fill your head at a dizzying rate, reddening your face and making you shift in your seat as you read. You aren’t quite sure if you think you’re an Alpha anymore; this was the last thing you expected these zines to be about. With such an open-ended and fascinating concept for a world, the authors creating stories in it sure do love to only focus on how these men fuck. Not that you mind.

RESEARCH +1 Electrochemistry: This Is Kinda Hot?

COMPLETION +1 Encyclopedia: New Knowledge (Yaoi) +2 Electrochemistry: Yeah, You Think This Is Hot.

canon information [PHOTO ID: Cuno De Ryuter's portrait from the video game Disco Elysium in front of the rabies pride flag. END ID]

what farming items in mmorpgs has taught me: i used to think using ice trays to make ice cubes was free but after thinking about it i have to pay the electric bill to power the freezer so every moment that i’m not freezing new trays of ice cubes is a moment that i’m underutilizing the freezer and increasing the cost of ice cubes. i have to constantly swap out ice trays for new ice cubes on an hourly rotation on a 24 hour basis or else i won’t produce the maximum amount of ice cubes possible and will underutilize the full potential of my electric bill. i need to stop using all other appliances and utilities in my home to make more ice cubes

I'm just gonna slide this on in here for anyone that is interested in preserving old games. They take it very seriously too, they want an archive of every single game. Like, they have lists of every game ever released for a system, and once that system gets old enough, they add it to their archive and start collecting. Their latest addition was the Xbox 360, they opened that vault up in September 2022, and proudly announced they'd finished their collection of games for it back in April.

Also, while their game archives are almost entirely complete, they've got another project of archiving the manuals that came with those games, and that is... considerably less well filled out. Their collection of Xbox 360 manuals is especially rough, they've only gotten manuals for three games. So if you've got some Xbox 360 games kicking around, and the manual's still with them, please consider scanning them and submitting them to the site!

Game preservation is important, but people rarely consider preserving the manuals as well; I really respect Vimm's Lair for being so thorough in their archival work.

ok so there’s a game me and my friends play called “don’t get me started” and basically someone gives another person a random topic and they have to go on an angry rant about it and it’s the best thing that’s ever happened to us at parties and car rides so I highly recommend playing sometimes with your friends

I love this idea. We used to do things like this in Improv.

Related game: “THINK ABOUT IT.” You’re given a random topic, and your job is to build it into an epic conspiracy theory, the crazier the better. You end your rant with a serious face and the command that your listeners “Think about it.” 

Another related game: Illuninati. Similar to Think About It except you are given 2 completely different topics and you have to connect them to each other in a wild conspiracy rant

Rb to safe an awkward hang out

me and my friends play “World’s Greatest Expert” where one of the other players says “Hey, I heard you’re the world’s greatest expert on ____” and you have to give an in depth (and probably completely false) lecture about the thing you’re the greatest expert on. Other players are allowed to ask you questions.

The version I learned was ‘Ah Yes’ in which someone gives you a work of art or famous landmark and you go “Ah Yes, the ____” in a posh accent while making up the most wildly inaccurate history of the topic. Bonus points for how hard everyone laughs.

I don't know whether or not this is true, but I'm reblogging this because we live in a world where the third search result when I tried researching the validity of this information was a link to an article about a weight loss product.

The second search result had included the slur "ob*se" in the title of the article.

There are seriously people who tell me fat people aren't oppressed. Meanwhile, trying to find information about how to keep a fat person from drying in a car crash is met with links to products that make dirty money off of how society views my body.

I immediately gave up trying to research this.

The tiktok is correct. Basically it's about arranging your belt so it there is an accident the pressure is in your strongest bones.

"Seatbelt should be across your hips rather than your stomach for everyone, but i think it's more common for fat people to wear seatbelts over the stomach

Pelvic bones are strong and sturdy, and you're going to be MUCH less likely to injure internal organs and such when you suddenly slam into a nylon belt"

Text and photos by @thejacespace

I wanted to put both of these reblogs in one reblog chain since this is helpful information. Thank you both for giving more information than fatphobic Google did.

I guess we know this post broke containment

I feel bad to hijack this HELPFUL post but here we are.

lmao I’m in eating disorder recovery you dick. The implication that I’m fatphobic in your tags is very disrespectful. I don’t know why it’s a slur. Is fat a slur? Just because a word makes you unhappy, doesn’t make it a slur. I need a better explanation than that.. The N word was created and used to oppress and put my people down. Was the “O word” created to put bigger bodied people down? or (my knowledge) to explain it medically? A misguided attempt to explain cuz bmi is bullshit. And yes fat people experience discrimination and oppression. I still I don’t understand how this is a slur from my own knowledge and experience.

You want people to stop participating in their own oppression but are quick to be snarky, not helpful.

Heres a brief introduction to the concept. Also medical/scientific terms have OFTEN included slurs beyond obese.

The word exists today as a judgment and short hand for "stupid pigs who spend all day eating" it negatively influences treatment of those with the label and is used as an insult, you arent not meant to want to be 'obese' the term is designed as some boogyman of judgement. Medically it has little value, it's usage today is directly tied to the BMI. (As is the term overweight). Sure its not as "bad" as some other slurs but it's use in our culture is harmful.

Different mod here:

I also want to add how the term is used to immediately label fat people unhealthy. Health does not equal worth, but "weight inherently equals ill health" is also an untrue statement. Putting the label of "ob*se" or "overweight" on a person is a way to assume the person is unhealthy without doing any tests, exams, or check-ups. It gives biased justification for a doctor to assume a fat person's health, habits, and life/medical history, which is then used in how the medical system treats us. Why give us fat people necessary medical care and actually do any tests to determine the cause of a symptom a fat patient is experiencing when "obviously" the problem is just that the person is "too fat"? This thought process is used every single day by doctors and is why fat people die from medical abuse and medical neglect constantly. You might relate to people, including medical staff, not believing you have an eating disorder due to being labeled "ob*se."

These terms are also used so that doctors can make more money on fat patients through insurance systems and to attribute any illness or death to a person's weight without evidence. "Ob*sity" was even classified as a disease despite the very own review boards of health organizations disagreeing on that decision, those health organizations being influenced by weight loss corporations who love making easy money off of fat people's oppression. The term "ob*se" is used to classify fat bodies as diseased without proof. Society views the existence of a fat person as the equivalent of a blight on the human population.

And then there's how fat people constantly have to hear from fatphobes "I'm not fatphobic, I just think ob*se people need to–" and "Some fat people are fine, but ob*se people shouldn't–" Every day, the slur is used to show conditional "acceptance" so that fatphobes can feel more justified in their bigotry as well as single out the fat people who are viewed by fatphobes as the most "egregious." Fatphobes also feel more justified by hiding their discrimination behind medical terms because "How can medicine and science be biased? See, I'm automatically correct." Fatphobes don't care that medicine and science have been used to oppress marginalized groups for centuries.

As Mod Squirrel explained, medical terms are never safe from being or becoming slurs. If you need an example, think about how the word "ret*rded" was a medical term and is now a slur. The words "ob*se" and "overweight" were used to oppress and put fat people down from the very beginning, starting with being coined for the BMI that was used to determine the "ideal" man in the work of a statistician whose research was later utilized to support eugenics.

It's time to stop using these slurs and also stop viewing fat bodies as "excess" (as you described in your tags) while we're at it.

-Mod Worthy

the wga + sag-aftra co-strike means an indefinite pause on the endless onslaught of superhero media